TimByte

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by TimByte 6d ago
Tell that to the engineers doing 70 % more triage while their compensation stays flat
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by TimByte 16d ago
Stories about Tim Cook sitting there being surprised by sales are total marketing. They simply ran out of memory chips because of the global shortage, so they repacked supply delays into a nice story about insane hype among AI startups. And
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by TimByte 23d ago
Apple hasn't been selling just ram for a long time, they sell vram. Try getting 512 gb of HBM on current Nvidia cards - it's gonna cost way more than $ 24k. And here you get the same amount of memory for weights right in a quiet u
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by TimByte 23d ago
Gonna go sell a kidney, should just about cover a base Mac Studio. Guess I'll need a payday loan for the power cable
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by TimByte 28d ago
If a kaiju shows up in the prompt, the weights will immediately drift from game theory into fiction. And by the laws of the genre, the military is obligated to drop a nuke on it - just to make the monster even angrier so it goes and trashes
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by TimByte 28d ago
So nobody's bothered by the fact that five out of nine models went nuke in 100% of cases regardless of the language?..
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by TimByte 2mo ago
Yeah that’s why they delegated code gen to deterministic tooling and saved the model for input fuzzing - let it fight the data instead of legacy syntax
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by TimByte 2mo ago
For the article they just mocked it out for unit tests. But in reality you really can't - that’s a massive pain in the ass. Rewriting pure math is easy, but mocking CICS transaction isolation in java means spinning up these monstrous a
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by TimByte 2mo ago
The whole point of Apple silicon isnt speed, it is capacity. You can grab a Mac Studio with 192 gb of unified memory and shove a model in there that would otherwise require building a rig with multiple rtx 4090 s. For local dev just being a
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by TimByte 2mo ago
It would be interesting to measure not just the accuracy, but how many people actually decided to double check the answer
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by TimByte 2mo ago
Obviously without a proper RAG pipeline or web search it is just going to hallucinate with maximum confidence. It would be more interesting to see the results with top tier models that have proper alignment to refuse to answer when token pr
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by TimByte 2mo ago
The interesting taxonomy may be less about the source of the names and more about what properties they have
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by TimByte 2mo ago
Somewhere in Cloudflare's DNS system, a random number generator briefly became the office matchmaker
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by TimByte 2mo ago
A surprising amount of infrastructure design seems to be hiding patterns that humans will otherwise turn into unsupported features
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by TimByte 3mo ago
The web has its own problems, but at least bad HTML is often still visible enough to repair. A custom canvas-like desktop UI can be basically a black box to assistive tech
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by TimByte 3mo ago
Yeah, blind seems unavoidable there, since it's literally about a blind client
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by TimByte 3mo ago
The "invisible" point is interesting, although I'm not sure I'd read too much into it. Visual metaphors are so baked into English that avoiding all of them can start to feel a bit performative unless the wording is actua
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by TimByte 3mo ago
Sidewalks have to be usable by people who can't hear, people moving slowly, kids, older people etc. If a cyclist is on a sidewalk and can't safely pass without the pedestrian reacting instantly, they're the one creating the p
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by TimByte 3mo ago
The "read only" example is such a good illustration of how accessibility problems often aren't one big broken thing, but a bunch of tiny reasonable-seeming decisions stacked together
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by TimByte 3mo ago
The most interesting number is missing here, and that is the token distribution by use case. If 60-70% was eaten up by PDFs, agents and automation instead of people actually sitting in Claude Code, then it is a completely different story
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by TimByte 3mo ago
Maybe the real lesson is that public education has always had both impulses: emancipation and formation on one hand, conformity and state needs on the other
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by TimByte 3mo ago
I think both can be true, depending on which layer of the system you're looking at
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by TimByte 3mo ago
That may be why the rhetoric of education stays lofty while the day-to-day machinery often feels much more pragmatic
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by TimByte 3mo ago
Mandatory education is still probably better than the alternative but it does seem to create a constant tension: the system has to serve students who want very different things from it
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by TimByte 3mo ago
The funniest part is that the article about AI slime polluting the internet was itself generated from start to finish by a neural net to promote some startup. But the problem they're so clumsily trying to monetize is absolutely real. G
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by TimByte 3mo ago
This is a good reminder that "green" does not have to mean perfectly manicured
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by TimByte 3mo ago
I don't think the point is that London literally lacks pavement trees. As you say, the London plane is almost part of the city's visual identity in many areas. The interesting thing to me is how uneven the experience can be
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by TimByte 3mo ago
The green space exists, but access to it is often something you have to deliberately route yourself through
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by TimByte 3mo ago
What struck me is that the "three trees from your window" part sounds almost trivial until you actually test it
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by TimByte 3mo ago
To be fair, you're comparing different use cases

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